A generous lend of a macro lens from Jack Hobbs at the
Auckland Botanic Gardens for my trip to the rainforests of Borneo has ensured a
new addition to the ‘must have’ list for Christmas.
On return home from Malaysia where the focus of the lens was
on miniature fungi hidden in the leaf litter and bizarre invertebrates (see
below) I played around in my autumn garden – oh what a delight there is in
seeing things from the perspective of a bee.
It reminds me of the wise advice of an elderly gardener I
used to visit as an 11 year old. She had
a large rambling garden full of roses and bulbs and some very sweet bantams (of
whose eggs I always went home with).
Over a glass of lemonade and a biscuit, she would tell me to “always
remember every day and all the tiny details of things – as one day I would wake
and be her age (70+) with a wish to have spent more time observing and noticing
the ‘beauty in little things’…
